Abstract: An illumination for a motor vehicle includes a light-guide, a housing element, and a light source. The light-guide is arranged in the housing, with the light source arranged to project light into a side face of the light-guide. An air gap is formed between a colored coating, provided in an inner bottom surface of the housing, and the light-guide. The light-guide might include a portion covering the light source, and including an additional colored coating.

Abstract: A device for blow molding a container from a preform. The device includes a mold base and a pedestal for supporting the mold base. An electric heating element is beneath the mold base for heating the mold base. An insulator is between the heating element and the pedestal.

Abstract: A blow mold assembly for forming a polymeric container. The blow mold assembly has a thread insert defining threads configured to form finish threads on a finish of the polymeric container. An electric heater of the blow mold assembly is configured to heat the thread insert as the polymeric container is formed.

Abstract: A method for forming a container from a high-density polyethylene preform by one-step or two-step injection stretch blow molding. The method includes inserting the preform in a mold. The preform has a preform axial length. The method further includes blow-molding the preform into the mold to form the container, including stretching the preform to form the container with a container axial length that is 2.5-5 times greater than the preform axial length.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a thread insert for a blow mold assembly configured to form a polymeric container. The thread insert includes: an inner mold surface defining threads, the inner mold surface configured to form a finish of the container; a first bore defined by the thread insert; and a first heating element seated within the first bore and configured to heat the inner mold surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cladding part of a body shell of a vehicle. The cladding part having a base body, which has a visible side facing towards the outer side and an inner side and which comprises a light window in the form of a light-transmitting transparent or translucent region at least in a sub-region, and an opaque region with a colouring coating at least in a sub-region. The cladding part also having an illumination function, which is arranged behind the visible side of the base body for shining through or illuminating the light window.

Abstract: An information display on the outside of a vehicle, comprised of at least one illumination element or a display, which is overpainted with paint layers, wherein one of the paint layers has the car colour, and wherein a pattern in the form of holes or areas is produced in all the paint layers by ablation by means of a laser.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination system (1) for an external cladding part of a motor vehicle, having at least a configuration region (2), which has a visible side facing towards the outer side and a rear side with a rear-side face (2b) as well as side faces (2a), wherein the configuration region (2) is formed as a light-guide body and is processed on the rear-side face (2b) in the region of a light window for representation of a characteristic feature appearing three-dimensionally on the visible side, having a housing element (4) with a coloured bottom face (4b) and side faces (4c), wherein an air gap remains between the rear-side face (2b) of the configuration region (2) and the bottom face (4b), and an installation space, in which a light source (6) is arranged, remains between the configuration region (2) and the side face (4c) of the housing element (2), the light being couplable into a side face of the configuration region (2) and being couplable out at the laser structure (11), and subsequently

Abstract: The invention relates to a cladding part of a body shell of a vehicle. The cladding part having a base body, which has a visible side facing towards the outer side and an inner side and which comprises a light window in the form of a light-transmitting transparent or translucent region at least in a sub-region, and an opaque region with a colouring coating at least in a sub-region. The cladding part also having an illumination function, which is arranged behind the visible side of the base body for shining through or illuminating the light window.

Abstract: A closure for a polymeric container configured to be filled with a commodity by a hot-fill process. The closure includes an outer metallic ring and a flexible membrane. The flexible membrane is removably sealed across the ring and is configured to be drawn from an outward, pre-fill configuration to an inward, post-fill configuration in response to a vacuum created within the container during the hot-fill process. In the inward, post-fill configuration the flexible membrane is concave relate to an outer side of the closure.

Abstract: A device for blow molding a container from a preform. The device includes a mold base and a pedestal for supporting the mold base. An electric heating element is beneath the mold base for heating the mold base. An insulator is between the heating element and the pedestal.

Abstract: A refillable container including a base having a standing surface surrounding a push-up portion. The push-up portion includes a central portion at a center of the base that is recessed inward from a plane extending across the standing surface. A longitudinal axis of the container extends from a first end of the container to a second end through the central portion. A linear portion of the base extends radially outward from the central portion towards the standing surface of the base. The base is configured to reduce stress crack failures.

Abstract: A refillable container including a base having a standing surface surrounding a push-up portion. The push-up portion includes a central portion at a center of the base that is recessed inward from a plane extending across the standing surface. A longitudinal axis of the container extends from a first end of the container to a second end through the central portion. A linear portion of the base extends radially outward from the central portion towards the standing surface of the base. The base is configured to reduce stress crack failures.

Abstract: A plastic container is provided having an elongated neck, a shoulder region, a body portion and a base. The shoulder region having a substantially square cross section. The base having a substantially circular cross section. The substantially square cross section of the shoulder region preserves the brand identification benefits associated with a square shaped container while the substantially circular cross section of the base preserves the handling and structural attributes associated with a circular shaped container.

Abstract: A plastic container is provided having an elongated neck, a shoulder region, a body portion and a base. The shoulder region having a substantially square cross section. The base having a substantially circular cross section. The substantially square cross section of the shoulder region preserves the brand identification benefits associated with a square shaped container while the substantially circular cross section of the base preserves the handling and structural attributes associated with a circular shaped container.